WHO INVENTED WWW AND E-COMMERCE (ONLINE SHOPPING)

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In 1979 English inventor and entrepreneur michael aldrich invented online shopping, or teleshopping, to enable online transaction processing between consumers and businesses, or from business to business. Aldrich's technique later became known as e-commerce; it did not become economically viable until the Internet. 

"His [Aldrich's] system connected a modified domestic TV to a real-time transaction processing computer via a domestic telephone line. He believed that videotex, the modified domestic TV technology with a simple menu-driven human–computer interface, was a 'new, universally applicable, participative communication medium — the first since the invention of the telephone. This enabled 'closed' corporate information systems to be opened to 'outside' correspondents not just for transaction processing but also for e-messaging and information retrieval and dissemination, later known as e-business.

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The internet is the networking infrastructure that connects devices together, while the World Wide Web is a way of accessing information through the medium of the internet. Tim Berners-Lee first proposed the idea of a 'web of information' in 1989. It relied on 'hyperlinks' to connect documents together.

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Michael Aldrich Invents Online Shopping (no date) Michael Aldrich Invents Online Shopping : History of Information. Available at: https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=4528 (Accessed: January 24, 2023).